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Political parties' use of web based marketing: some preliminary findings relating to first-time voters in the 2005 general election (2006)
Journal Article
Drummond, G. (2006). Political parties' use of web based marketing: some preliminary findings relating to first-time voters in the 2005 general election. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 11, 181-191. https://doi.org/10.1002/nvsm.23

This paper examines the marketing of political parties, via websites, in the 2005 UK general election with specific reference to first-time voters (age 18–24). Common perception views young voters as predominantly politically apathetic and less likel... Read More about Political parties' use of web based marketing: some preliminary findings relating to first-time voters in the 2005 general election.

Contested representations of war and heritage at the Residency, Lucknow, India. (2006)
Journal Article
Hannam, K. (2006). Contested representations of war and heritage at the Residency, Lucknow, India. International Journal of Tourism Research, 8(3), 199-212. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.567

This paper discusses the contemporary politics of heritage tourism in India and focuses upon contested representations of The First War of Indian Independence/The Indian Mutiny of 1857. The severity of this conflict has been written about extensively... Read More about Contested representations of war and heritage at the Residency, Lucknow, India..

An evaluation of the webquest as a computer‐based learning tool (2006)
Journal Article
Hassanien, A. (2006). An evaluation of the webquest as a computer‐based learning tool. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 11(2), 235-250. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596740600769230

This paper explores the preparation and use of an internet activity for undergraduate learners in higher education (HE). It evaluates the effectiveness of using webquest as a computer‐based learning (CBL) tool to support students to learn in HE. The... Read More about An evaluation of the webquest as a computer‐based learning tool.

What's significant in value based management: an internal perspective. (2006)
Journal Article
Brown, J. (2006). What's significant in value based management: an internal perspective. International journal of accounting, auditing and performance evaluation, 3(3), 320-340. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijaape.2006.010552

The subject of Value Based Management (VBM) in general, and Economic Value Added (EVATM) in particular, is one that is assuming increasing significance in both the academic and practitioner environments. This study adds to the literature in that it u... Read More about What's significant in value based management: an internal perspective..

European Viking Themed Festivals: An Expression of Identity (2006)
Journal Article
Hannam, K., & Halewood, C. (2006). European Viking Themed Festivals: An Expression of Identity. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 1(1), 17-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/17438730608668463

Viking themed festivals are now widespread throughout Europe and are a popular expression of heritage identity. The Anglo-American stereotypical representation of Viking heritage is of sea-faring, sexist and bloodthirsty men raping and pillaging. In... Read More about European Viking Themed Festivals: An Expression of Identity.

Creativity work environment: do UK advertising agencies have one? (2006)
Journal Article
Ensor, J., Pirrie, A., & Band, C. (2006). Creativity work environment: do UK advertising agencies have one?. European Journal of Innovation Management, 9(3), 258-268. https://doi.org/10.1108/14601060610678130

Purpose ? The aim of the present study is to identify whether the work environment of advertising agencies display the key elements (both positive and negative) of the conceptual categories which Amabile et al. hypothesise influence organisational cr... Read More about Creativity work environment: do UK advertising agencies have one?.

'You don't know what you've got till it's gone': re-contextualising the origins, development and impact of the call centre (2006)
Journal Article
Ellis, V., & Taylor, P. (2006). 'You don't know what you've got till it's gone': re-contextualising the origins, development and impact of the call centre. New Technology, Work and Employment, 21(2), 107-122. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-005X.2006.00167.x

This paper locates the emergence of call centres within the broader political economy. We demonstrate how British Gas responded to privatisation, restrictive regulation and the need to deliver shareholder value by radically changing work organisation... Read More about 'You don't know what you've got till it's gone': re-contextualising the origins, development and impact of the call centre.

Rejecting romanitas? Sidonius, Syagrius and the politics of language (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dodd, L. (2006, July). Rejecting romanitas? Sidonius, Syagrius and the politics of language. Paper presented at 'Without Let or Hindrance’: Inclusion and its Subversion from the Medieval to the Modern, University of Lancaster

This paper examines an event described in Letter 5.5 of Sidonius Apollinaris which describes how the Roman aristocrat and lawyer, Syagrius, had broken with tradition and begun taking lessons in the Burgundian language. It demonstrates that this even... Read More about Rejecting romanitas? Sidonius, Syagrius and the politics of language.

The Sheffield School and Discourse Theory: Divergences and Similarities in Legal Idealism/Anti-Positivism* (2006)
Journal Article
Clucas, R. (2006). The Sheffield School and Discourse Theory: Divergences and Similarities in Legal Idealism/Anti-Positivism*. Ratio Juris, 19(2), 230-244. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9337.2006.00326.x

When first I began this paper, I envisaged it as a fairly straightforward exercise in comparison between the Sheffield School’s and Discourse Theory’s varieties of legal idealism or anti-positivism (these terms being synonymous for the types of theo... Read More about The Sheffield School and Discourse Theory: Divergences and Similarities in Legal Idealism/Anti-Positivism*.